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Canadian non-fiction, Canadian authors (Non-fiction), Disabilities
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Donna Thomson’s life was forever changed when her son Nicholas was born with cerebral palsy. A former actor, director, and…
teacher, Donna became his primary caregiver and embarked on a second career as a disability activist, author, and consultant. Thomson vividly describes her experience in treading delicately through daily care, emergencies, and medical bureaucracy as she and her family cope with her son’s condition while maintaining value and dignity (for Nicholas, too). She demonstrates the vital contribution that people with disabilities make to our society and addresses the ethics and economics of giving and receiving care. 2014.
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Disabilities
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Legislative history of the civil rights movement for individuals with disabilities in the United States. Discusses various advocacy organizations, and the roles of technology and deinstitutionalization. c2011.
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Biography of persons with disabilities, Biography of blind or visually impaired persons, Women biography, Disabilities, Blindness and visual impairment
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Chronicles the life of Laura Bridgman, who, born into a New Hampshire farm family in 1829, became deaf and blind…
at the age of two. Freeberg recounts Laura's transformation into a woman who voraciously absorbed the world around her under the tutelage of Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe of the Perkins Institution for the Blind. 2001.
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Disabilities
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A chronicle of milestones in the ongoing fight for disability rights in the United States; includes the 1940 establishment of…
the National Federation of the Blind and the passing of both the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. Grades 4-7. c1996.
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Arts and entertainment, Disabilities
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Film has often shown people with physical disabilities as deserving isolation from the rest of society. Norden examines hundreds of…
Hollywood and international movies and uncovers the industry's practices for maintaining this status quo, while offering an array of physically disabled characters who embody or break out of stereotypes. He observes the arrival of a new set of stereotypes tied to the growth of science and technology in the 1970s and 1980s, and underscores later movies that display a newfound sensitivity. Some descriptions of sex, strong language. 1994.
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Disabilities
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First published as a magazine article in 1950, this book deals with Buck's feelings about her daughter Carol's mental retardation.…
Buck, noted for her humanitarian work with children, relates her struggle to understand and help her daughter. She was perhaps the first prominent person to openly acknowledge a retarded child, and as such broke a national taboo with her article's publication. 1992.
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Canadian fictionBiography of persons with disabilities, Science and medicine biography, Family biography, Canadian biography, Canadian non-fiction, Disabilities
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Walker Brown was born with a genetic mutation so rare that perhaps 300 people around the world also live with…
it. Walker turned twelve in 2008, but he weighs only 54 pounds, is still in diapers, can't speak and needs to wear special cuffs on his arms so that he can't continually hit himself. Expanded from Brown's Globe and Mail series about Walker, he sets out to discover his son. Some strong language. Canada Reads 2012. 2009.
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Disabilities, Health and medicine, Home and garden
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Yeomans, a nurse involved in occupational and physical therapy, suggests ways to adapt gardening techniques to a number of physical…
challenges, including visual problems. Tips are included in each chapter, and 20 sample gardens provide ideas such as gardens which stimulate all of the senses, indoor and container gardens, and herb and dried-flower gardens. The sample gardens also include lists of plants by sensory categories, such as fragrant plants, plants to listen to, and plants which are pleasant to the touch. [1993], c1992.
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Disabilities
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Ellen's personal experiences as a parent of children with autism and ADHD, a celebrated autism author, and a contributor to…
numerous publications, classrooms, conferences, and websites around the world coalesce to create a guide for all who come in contact with a child on the autism spectrum. This updated edition delves into expanded thought and deeper discussion of communication issues, social processing skills, and the critical roles adult perspectives play in guiding the child with autism to a meaningful, self-sufficient, productive life. 2016.
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Disabilities
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The unique perspective of a child's voice is back to help us understand the thinking patterns that guide their actions,…
shape an environment conducive to their learning style, and communicate with them in meaningful ways. This book affirms that autism imposes no inherent upper limits on achievement, that both teacher and child can do it. It's the game plan every educator, parent, or family member needs to make the most of every teaching moment in the life of these children we love. 2016.
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Canadian non-fiction, Disabilities, Laws and statutes
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The right to dignity for all is explicitly recognized in Canadian law; in practice a variety of individuals and groups…
have been excluded from the concern and respect that their nature as persons demands. Prominent among these excluded groups are members of the disabled community, who are marginalized by a society that regularly neglects to recognize their needs, capacities, and merits as individuals. Shannon identifies the social and attitudinal barriers still present in Canadian society today, and cites the factors needed to reverse the process of exclusion. 2007.
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Biography of persons with disabilities, Disabilities
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Presents interviews with handicapped or physically "different" people. They tell of their experiences in childhood, school, social and work life,…
religious faith, and what they would like to share with society. 1984.
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Disabilities, General non-fiction
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Four problem children were put in Torey Hayden's class because no one else knew what to do with them. Together,…
with the help of a remarkable teacher who cared too much to ever give up, they became almost a family, able to give each other the love and understanding they had found nowhere else. 1999.
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Canadian non-fiction, Canadian authors (Non-fiction), Disabilities
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A look back on and celebration of Rick Hansen's Man In Motion World Tour, which began in 1985 and covered…
40,000 kilometres through 34 countries on four continents before ending in Canada in 1987. The tour raised $26 million for spinal cord injury research and initiatives to improve the quality of life and accessibility for those with disabilities. 2017.
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Disabilities
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Rescue thought he'd grow up to be a Seeing Eye dog -- it's the family business, after all. When he…
gets the news that he's better suited to being a service dog, he's worried that he's not up to the task. Then he meets Jessica, a girl whose life is turning out differently than the way she'd imagined it, too. Now Jessica needs Rescue by her side to help her accomplish everyday tasks. And it turns out that Rescue can help Jessica see after all: a way forward, together, one step at a time. An endnote from the authors tells more about the training and extraordinary abilities of service dogs, particularly their real-life best friend and black lab, Rescue. Grades K-3. 2018.
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Arts and entertainment, Biography, Fine arts biography, Biography of persons with disabilities, Women biography, Disabilities
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Choreographer and dancer Agnes de Mille talks about her recovery from a massive cerebral hemorrhage which left her temporarily blind, partially paralyzed and unable to speak. 1981.
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Biography, Science and medicine biography, Disabilities
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Science writer recounts his decision to get a cochlear implant, or a computer surgically imbedded in the skull, to artificially…
restore hearing after he became totally deaf in 2001. Describes his physical and mental changes and reflects on the implications of technological advances on the deaf community and on humanity. 2005.
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Biography of persons with disabilities, Disabilities, Psychology
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Celui que l'on connaît comme le "psychiatre en fauteuil roulant", raconte son périple intérieur depuis le moment où, à 21 ans, un accident le rendit quadriplégique.
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Canadian non-fiction, Canadian authors (Non-fiction), Disabilities
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De plus en plus, le syndrome d'Asperger retient l'attention des médias, non seulement au Québec, mais également en France, en…
Belgique et aux États-Unis. Bien que ce syndrome soit relativement populaire , il demeure grandement incompris et méconnu. Il faut dire que le syndrome d'Asperger est un type d'autisme complexe, dit de haut niveau. Ouvrage essentiel pour toute personne interpellée par ce syndrome, l'Asperguide est écrit par une Asperger. De façon simple, et parfois avec humour, Tanya Izquierdo Prindle guide le lecteur à travers plusieurs aspects de ce syndrome. Définition, mythes, forces et faiblesses des personnes Asperger, déroulement du diagnostic, techniques d'adaptation, personnalités connues présentant ce syndrome, voilà quelques-uns des sujets qu'elle aborde. Véritable témoignage rempli d'informations utiles, l'Asperguide est un voyage au coeur d'un autisme particulier. Comme le mentionne l'auteure, les Asperger sont différents, parfois choquants, mais ils représentent un genre humain innovateur muni d'un énorme potentiel. 2017.
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Canadian non-fiction, Canadian authors (Non-fiction), Disabilities
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Qu'il sagisse de déficience physique, intellectuelle ou sensorielle, d'un retard global de développement, d'un trouble du spectre de l'autisme (TSA),…
d'un trouble du déficit de l'attention avec ou sans hyperactivité (TDA/H) ou de difficultés de traitement de l'information sensorielle, il est fort probable que la condition de l'enfant occupe une place importante dans le quotidien familial. Au-delà des besoins particuliers propose des moyens de mieux gérer la situation. La première partie de cette nouvelle édition concerne l'enfant : il y est question des réactions possibles à son diagnostic, de son développement avec ses difficultés, mais aussi ses possibilités, de ses besoins et de son caractère unique. Plusieurs suggestions pour l'accompagner sont également proposées, appuyées de nombreux exemples concrets. La deuxième partie est consacrée aux parents, en tant que personne et en tant que couple. L'auteure les invite à revisiter leur quotidien et leur propose des stratégies pour gérer leur énergie et leur stress. 2017.